Events
July 4, 2024
We are excited to present you episode #449 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching broadcasts, another 'African Presence' special in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. The show offers an introduction to the music of Tanzania by special guest, Prof. Dr. Imani Sanga.
July 4, 2024
Show #447 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching Globalwize format happens to be another 'African Presence' special broadcast. Recorded in the Bali Bistro in February 2024, this edition of the Globalwize Radioshow features the African Music Archives' (AMA) latest 'Artist in Residence' Eric '1key' Ngangare.
June 6, 2024
Starting on Wednesday, June 26, 5 pm at the AMA Lounge (Central Library), Prof. Martin Stokes from Kings College London presents his three lectures on "Listening beyond landscape".
May 17, 2024
On 5 June 2024, the AMA will host a concert by the Madagascan band "Ralah' Trio", a collaboration resulting from the AoM project "Improvising Culture. Jazz in Madagascar". For the first time in Germany, the Ralah' Trio will present their vision of Madagascar in the (music) world.
January 29, 2024
Globalwize presents another end-of-the-week special on Greedio with the latest 'African Presence' broadcast by Weltbeat host/selector Jean Trouillet and his studio guests Hauke Dorsch (African Music Archive) and Bulgarian-German writer Ilija Trojanow.
December 7, 2023
Seit Beginn des Wintersemesters 2023/24 ist sie da: die AMA-Lounge - direkt neben den neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Universitätsbibliothek. Am 18. Januar 2024 gibt AMA-Direktor Hauke Dorsch hier eine kleine Einführung im Rahmen der UB-"Denkpause": Die Kora - Musikinstrument der Griots Westafrikas.
December 11, 2023
On January 10th 2024, the AMA will host a solo Saz performance by Anatolian folk musician Derya Yıldırım. Following Derya’s performance, Şebnem Altunkaya, PhD candidate at ifeas, and Derya Yıldırım will hold a panel discussion on folk music(s) of Anatolia
November 6, 2023
In der Reihe "Musik und Diskurs" von Vintage Soundsystem unterhalten sich Hauke Dorsch (Archiv für die Musik Afrikas/Universität Mainz) und Jean Trouillet (African Presence/Radio X) mit Günter Gretz über ein bewegtes Leben an der Schnittstelle von kultureller und ästhetischer Vermittlung.
November 7, 2023
For this latest instalment of the Globalwize radio show, duly titled "IslandBreeze", Kathrin Thomas takes us on a two-hour tour of the Indian Ocean, focussing on music from the islands of Mauritius, the Seychelles and the Comoros.
November 6, 2023
Together with the Globalwize radio show host and selector Jean Trouillet, AMA's director Hauke Dorsch and PhD student Tom Simmert introduce Nonku Phiri from South Africa and Sharon Onyango-Obbo from Uganda/Kenya in #430 of this Podcast.
November 26, 2023
Keeping the energy alive with another ‘African Presence’ special broadcast, we get a two-hour introduction to the Afrobeats genre delivered to our doorstep, selected and presented by Kathrin Thomas.
November 26, 2023
This episode of the Globalwize radio show presented by WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet is another ‘African Presence‘ special with Dr. Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archive (AMA) at the University of Mainz.